Transnational feminisms and cosmopolitan feelings
In: Women's studies international forum, Band 67, S. 94-101
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In: Women's studies international forum, Band 67, S. 94-101
In: Australian journal of human rights: AJHR, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 31-53
ISSN: 1323-238X
In: Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 68-86
ISSN: 1360-0524
In: Emotion, space and society, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 51-60
ISSN: 1755-4586
In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 76-100
ISSN: 1468-4470
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 387-416
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Third world quarterly, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 956-979
ISSN: 0143-6597
World Affairs Online
In: Third world quarterly, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 956-979
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 273-293
ISSN: 1461-7390
Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images and arguments that obscure the realities of the practices of FGC and the complexity of the role of the practitioner. In Australia, state and territory legislation was followed, in 2015, with a conviction in New South Wales highlighting the problem with laws that speak to fantasies of 'mutilation'. This article analyses the positioning of Islamic women as victims of their culture, represented as performing their roles as vehicles for demonic possession, unable to authorize agency or law. Through a perverse framing of 'mutilation', and in the case through the interpretation of the term 'mutilation', practices of FGC as law performed by women are obscured, avoiding the challenge of a real multiculturalism that recognises lawful practices of migrant cultures in democratic countries.